Personal rights

Definitions

Personal rightsrights appertaining to the person; as, the rights of a personal security, personal liberty, and private property.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
Would you believe that "on the nose" comes from radio? When broadcasting began, directors had to communicate with people on the air without making noise, so they developed hand signals. Time is always a key element in live broadcasts. The person at the mike needed to know if the program was on schedule. If things were "just right," the director signaled with a finger to the side of his or her nose.

Personal rightsrights which belong to the person as a living, reasonable being

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Quotations

Marian Wright Edelman

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

Lord Chesterfield

“When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”

Alice Walker

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

Ethel Watts Mumford

“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person”

Margaret Mead

“I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.”

In science:

The reason they were routed mostly through geodesics was that as the personnel knew each other they tried to transfer the responsibility of the bug fix to the right person in the smallest number of steps.

From a physics perspective, these ideas are very attractive, but as an astronomer, I personally hope that their application here turns out to be unsuccessful because if they are right, they give us little hope for using variability for understanding how black holes accrete.